Green ravings = government policy, apparently.

My second favourite comic strip is Matthew Hooton’s weekly contribution to the National Business Review. The NBR is a useful read – its political perspective and analysis is generally different from mine, and they break some interesting stories.

In the latest (December 3rd) issue, Mr Hooton reveals that, “…everyone from Mr [Trevor] Mallard to Mr [David] Cunliffe to Mr [Bill] English agrees SOEs need to become more dynamic… [so] surely it’s time to abandon the current practice of having SOE ownership policy determined solely by the demented ravings of the Greens?”

Who knew we had such power over the government’s policy? I wonder what we should start raving about next (in a suitably demented manner) to determine what John Key et al put into their policy platform? The opportunities are limitless!

Fingers crossed, that this is one term govt. else the axe may well fall.. all SOEs could become FCOEs (fat cat owed enterprises ?)
It seems that if govts totally ignored the greens, words like: climate change, sustainability & environmental impact would be just that ‘WORDS’.. Kia-ora

My vote within the Greens was that we express a preference for Labour going in, but no absolutes (This time around the party membership is being consulted at least somewhat ).

As for what conditions National would have to accept to get us to do a deal… lets just say that they would stick in their throats sideways. As much as their policies are diametrically opposed to our own, the conditions for us to join them would have to be such as to cause their their own membership to bolt the party.

All things are possible. Some things are more likely than others. My approach is not to say “no” without listening to what is on offer, but I would expect to eventually reject that offer with reason, and in so doing, make public the reasoning. Media exposure we denied ourselves last time.

Labour would be a different case, but might ALSO see some members bolting. I have no notion of their internal fault-lines.